Taken (film) — A Video Map Guide

Former Green Beret and retired CIA officer Bryan Mills attempts to build a closer relationship with his 17-year-old daughter, Kim, who lives with her mother, Lenore, and her wealthy step-father, Stuart. While overseeing security at a concert for pop star Sheerah, Bryan saves her from a knife-wielding attacker. Sheerah gratefully offers to have her vocal coach assess Kim, an aspiring singer. Meanwhile, Kim needs Bryan's written permission to visit Paris with her friend, Amanda. Though concerned about Kim's safety, Bryan, pressured by Lenore, reluctantly agrees. At the airport, Bryan learns that Kim and Amanda are actually planning to follow U2 during their European tour. Upon arriving at Charles de Gaulle Airport, Kim and Amanda meet Peter, who offers to share a taxi. Kim and Amanda arrive at her cousins' apartment, where Kim unexpectedly finds that they are vacationing in Spain. While talking with Bryan on her cell phone, Kim sees men entering the apartment and abducting Amanda. Upon instructions from her father, Kim yells out her captor's descriptions as she is taken. Bryan tells the kidnappers that he will avoid pursuing them if they release Kim, but threatens them with death if they fail to comply. The listener only replies, "good luck", and terminates the call. Bryan's former colleague, Sam, deduces the kidnappers belong to an Albanian sex trafficking ring, and identifies the recorded voice as mob boss Marko Hoxha. Based on previous abductions, Kim must be found within 96 hours or be lost forever. Bryan flies to Paris. At the apartment, he finds Kim's phone and checks the photos, identifying Peter, the spotter, in a reflection. Bryan locates and apprehends Peter at the airport attempting to lure another young victim, but Peter breaks free after one of his associates attacks Bryan. In the ensuing pursuit, Peter inadvertently walks into oncoming traffic and is killed by an oncoming truck. With his only lead dead, Bryan contacts Jean

output .div-col-small1px solid #aaa}col dl,col ol,col ulcol li,col dd Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills, an ex-Green Beret and CIA officer seeking to rescue his daughter from sex traffickers Maggie Grace as Kimberly "Kim" Mills, Bryan's daughter Famke Janssen as Lenore "Lenny" Mills-St John, Bryan's former wife Leland Orser as Sam Gilroy, a former colleague of Bryan's who helps track down Kim's abductors Jon Gries as Mark Casey David Warshofsky as Bernie Harris Holly Valance as Sheerah, a pop star Bryan is hired to protect Katie Cassidy as Amanda, Kim's friend Xander Berkeley as Stuart St. John, Lenore's husband and Kim's stepdad Olivier Rabourdin as Jean-Claude Pitrel, an ex-DGSE agent now National Police officer and old acquaintance to Bryan Gérard Watkins as Patrice Saint-Clair, a black market sex trafficking auctioneer and terrorist leader Arben Bajraktaraj as Marko Hoxha, terrorist leader of a sex trafficking ring responsible for Kim's abduction Camille Japy as Isabelle Nicolas Giraud as Peter, a small-time criminal serving as a scout for a terrorist sex trafficking ring Goran Kostić as Gregor, an Albanian University professor who Bryan hired to translate for him Nabil Massad [fr] as Raman, the Sheikh, and a customer to Pitrel Jalil Naciri [fr] as Ali, one of Sheikh Raman's personal bodyguards

The film was produced by Luc Besson's EuropaCorp. Pierre Morel had previously worked as a director of photography for Besson, and they had also collaborated on Morel's directorial debut, District 14. Besson pitched the idea of Taken one night over dinner and Morel immediately became attached to the idea of a father fighting to protect his daughter. Jeff Bridges was first cast as Bryan Mills, but after he dropped out of the project, Liam Neeson accepted the part, desiring to play a more physically demanding role than he was used to. Neeson at first thought the film to be no more than a "little side road" for his career, expecting it to be released directly to video. Instead, the film went on to define Neeson's career and establish him as an action star.

The score of the film was composed by Nathaniel Méchaly and released on 27 January 2009. Soundtrack All songs written and composed by Nathaniel Méchaly except where noted. output .tracklist trtracklist tr:nth-child(2n-1)tracklist captiontracklist td,tracklist th[scope="row"]tracklist th[scope="col"]tracklist th.tracklist-length-header,tracklist th.tracklist-number-header,tracklist th[scope="row"],output .tracklist-total-length tdtracklist th[scope="row"]output .tracklist-length-headertracklist tr.tracklist-total-lengthtracklist .tracklist-total-length thlength th>spanlength tdTaken (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)No.TitleLength1."Opening"0:522."Change" (Written and performed by Joy Denalane featuring Lupe Fiasco)4:123."Permission to Go to Paris"1:114."Heading Off"1:105."The Concert"0:536."There's Somebody Here"3:227."Pursuit at Roissy"1:078."On the Rooftop"1:409."Ninety Six Hours"6:0110."The Constructio

Taken was released in France on February 27, 2008, by EuropaCorp and was released in other territories by 20th Century Fox. The film was edited by 3 minutes to secure a PG-13 rating in the United States.

Box office Taken grossed $145 million in North America and $81.8 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $226.8 million, against a production budget of $25 million. On its opening day in North America, the film grossed $9.4 million, scoring the best opening day ever for Super Bowl weekend. It went on to make $24.7 million during its opening weekend playing in 3,183 theaters, with a $7,765 per-theatre average and ranking #1, which was the second highest Super Bowl opening weekend, at the time, behind Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert ($31.1 million). The film is also the highest grossing among the Taken films in North America. The biggest markets in other territories were South Korea, UK, France, Australia and Spain: the film grossed $15.47 million, $11.27 million, $9.43 million, $6.28 million, and $5.46 million respectively. Critical response On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 60%, based on 178 reviews, with an average rating of 5.80/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Taken is undeniably fun with slick action, but is largely a brainless exercise." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 50 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two and a half stars out of four, writing, "It's always a puzzle to review a movie like this. On the one hand, it's preposterous. But who expects a 'Bourne'-type city-wrecking operative to be plausible? On the other hand, it's very well-made. Liam Neeson brings the character a hard-edged, mercilessly focused anger, and director Pierre Morel hurtles through action sequences at a breathless velocity." Richard Corliss of Time said the film "has nothing more on its mind than dozens of bad guys getting beat up and another one turned into instant r

Award Category Subject Result Broadcast Music, Inc. BMI Film Music Award Nathaniel Méchaly Won Golden Schmoes Awards Best Line Liam Neeson Won Biggest Surprise of the Year Taken 2nd place Saturn Award Best International Film Taken Nominated

Taken was released as "Taken (Single-Disc Extended Edition)" on DVDs on 12 May 2009 and on Blu-ray on 9 December 2014. The film also saw release of "Taken (Two-Disc Extended Edition)" on DVDs and Blu-ray Discs on 12 May 2009. As of 5 February 2015[update], the film has sold 5,388,963 DVDs and 607,073 Blu-ray Discs and grossing $79,798,171 and $10,069,116 respectively totaling $89,867,287 in North America.

In November 2010, Fox announced that EuropaCorp would produce a sequel directed by Olivier Megaton. Taken 2 was subsequently released in France on 3 October 2012, with Neeson, Janssen, Grace, Gries, Rabourdin and Orser reprising their roles from the first film. A third Taken film was released 16 December 2014.

output imedia print{0 Taken (2017 TV series) In September 2015, NBC greenlit a TV series depicting a younger Bryan Mills with Clive Standen portraying Mills, Gaius Charles, Monique Gabriela Curnen, James Landry Hébert, Michael Irby, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Jennifer Marsala and Simu Liu are cast as John, Vlasik, Casey, Scott, Dave, Riley and Faaron, members of OPCON. Brooklyn Sudano is cast as Asha, an attractive, well-educated young student from an upper-middle-class family who is furthering her education when she first meets Bryan, and Jennifer Beals is cast as Christina Hart, the Special Deputy Director of National Intelligence who has taken Mills under her wing. Alexander Cary is a writer, executive producer and showrunner for the series and Alex Graves directed the pilot. The show lasted two seasons, beginning in February 2017 and ending in June the following year.